Yes you did read that correctly. Effective April 8, 2014 Microsoft will no longer provide support or updates for their Windows XP and Office 2003 products. What does this mean? Well, it means that, moving forward, the above mentioned software will become increasingly dangerous to have on your network. This would be due to virus ...
This week: Google Not in Favor of Data Localization; 30 Years of Mac; Neiman Marcus Data Breach; Canadian Gov Opens Data for App Hackathon; Ukraine Gov Knows Who’s Protesting; Google’s Video Tool to Evaluate ISPs Each Monday we’ll pass on links to articles we thought were well worth reading from the previous week, for those ...
This week: Cisco Assumes Your Network’s Hacked; Smart ‘Things’ Sending Spam; Frustrations of Canadian Wireless Policy; Realtor Accepts Bitcoin; NSA’s Radio Pathway into Computers; Internet Free Speech Dead in US?; Google Breaches Canadian Privacy Laws Each Monday we’ll pass on links to articles we thought were well worth reading from the previous week, for those ...
This week: Target Hacker Victim #s Grow; Finder’s Fee for Software Bugs?; Rogers Counting Internal Traffic Against Data Cap?; How NSA Nearly Killed the Internet; Apple, Google, Microsoft Race to Bring OS to Cars Each Monday we’ll pass on links to articles we thought were well worth reading from the previous week, for those who ...
January is the time I like to take a look back at my previous year’s posts and update you with news or other tidbits of relevant information I think you might find interesting. I’ve included links so you can review articles you may have missed. So without further adieu… Last year’s blog entries started out ...
This week: Six Things to Expect in IT in 2014; Canada’s Ugly Telecom War; NSA’s Backdoor Exposed: Planting Spyware Before delivery Each Monday we’ll pass on links to articles we thought were well worth reading from the previous week, for those who live where we do (British Columbia, Canada), work like we do (high speed ...
This week: Top-secret NSA unit infiltrates computers; Sharks Tweeting?; Target Data Breach Bringing Down Everybody, including Hackers; Advisers urge Obama to Curb NSA Data Mining; Target Hack Exposes 40 million Credit Cards; Mobile Payments Raise Consumer Protection Issues. Each Monday (okay, we missed last week — Merry Christmas!) we’ll pass on links to articles we ...
This week: PEN Canada says Internet Filtering threatens Freedom of Expression; CRTC: are Roaming Rates Just?; NSA Using Google Tracking Cookies; Canadian Privacy Laws Filled with Loopholes; Ready for BYOD? Each Monday we’ll pass on links to articles we thought were well worth reading from the previous week, for those who live where we do ...
This week: Understanding ‘Net Neutrality’; Microsoft likens Government Snooping to Cyber attacks; Google Robots May Pose Delivery Challenge to Amazon Drones; Canada’s Anti-Spam Law Arrives July 1st, 2014; Facebook’s Wind-Powered Data Center Each Monday we’ll pass on links to articles we thought were well worth reading from the previous week, for those who live where ...
One of the traditional activates that happens around our house during the Holiday Season is to make a big batch of homemade Nuts and Bolts. For those of you not familiar with the delicious snack you take a couple of different kinds of cereal (in our case it’s definitely Cheerios and Rice Chex), mix in ...